Literary Devices
Poetic Structure
Dramatic Structure
Author's Choice
Grab Bag
100
Water represents life, rose represents love, fire represents power, engagement ring represents commitment, the American flag represents freedom.
What is symbolism?
100
Each section of a poem is called this.
What is a stanza?
100
Lines spoken by actors in a play.
What is dialogue?
100
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject.
What is tone?
100
A story that appears around the world with similar stages and elements and features a hero who leaves his ordinary world.
What is monomyth?
200
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close to each other, like "bold and beautiful."
What is alliteration?
200
A Shakespearean sonnet has this rhyme scheme.
What is abab cdcd efef gg?
200
A long speech a character speaks to him or herself which the audience overhears.
What is a soliloquy?
200
A character that you don't know a lot about.
What is a flat character?
200
When someone says "you're just not my type" rather than saying, "I think you're ugly" they are using this.
What is euphemism?
300
His whole body was a grimace.
What is metaphor?
300
These are a couple of lines of poetry next to each other that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
300
A short speech spoken directly to the audience and the other characters on stage cannot hear.
What is an aside?
300
A character that you see in a lot of different stories and usually is recognizable because he/she fits a well-known stereotype, like the bad boy or the mean cheerleader.
What is a stock character?
300
The feelings associated with a word and the dictionary definition of a word.
What are connotation and denotation?
400
When the opposite of what you would expect to happen, happens.
What is situational irony?
400
The type of poem that always contains 14 lines?
What is a sonnet?
400
A long uninterrupted speech by one actor usually spoken to the audience or another actor.
What is a monologue?
400
A character that is complex and has many different traits. You feel like you know this character.
What is a round character?
400
When the narrator is not a character in the story and seems to know everything about all of the characters.
What is an omniscient narrator?
500
When the audience knew that Juliet was not dead, but Romeo did not know and therefore killed himself, it is an example of this.
What is dramatic irony?
500
A Shakespearean sonnet has 3 sections with 4 lines each. They are called by this name.
What are quatrains?
500
Notes within a drama that directs movement of the characters to places on the stage and explains how they should say lines.
What are stage directions?
500
This is the longest part of a narrative, where the events build up to a climax.
What is the rising action?
500
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work.
What is theme?
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